The Addison -- Chef Joe Hahn Talks Boca Raton

I recently spoke to chef Joe Hahn of The Addison in Boca Raton. He talked about being a dishwasher, brunch, and volcano tuna. Here's what he had to say.

"I'm just the chef, been the executive chef for about a year now.

Last five years before coming here, I was at Maxwell's Chop House. I brought all the same prime meats that we were serving there over to here.

It's an aging process; the quality, tenderness, and flavor are all highly enhanced with the aging.

Been in the business for about 25 years now, I started as a dishwasher like most of us did and then worked my way up through the ranks. I decided I was going to culinary school, and I went to Johnson & Wales in South Carolina. I moved down to Florida about 20 years ago and been doing the same ever since."

"Bar opens at 5, dinner at 6; we serve until 10:30 or 11 depending on the crowd. We got a lot of

great specials every night. Monday, we got kind of like a prix fixe, you could